A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 19, 1953

When TIME'S Education Editor Bruce Barton Jr. was writing a cover story
on Robert M. Hutchins (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), then chancellor of the
University of Chicago, one of the many men he interviewed was
Playwright Thornton Wilder. Barton found Wilder to be one of the best
authorities on Hutchins.
Wilder and Hutchins first met at college (Oberlin and Yale), and
Hutchins later invited Wilder to serve on his faculty at Chicago.

For last week's cover story on Wilder, the tables were turned.
Interviewed in Pasadena, Hutchins announced to a TIME correspondent:
"I...